The Cats And VR app of the day for September 9th 2016 is Mars Odyssey from Oakland based company Steel Wool.

Mars Odyssey is a single player VR simulator experience. Land on Earth’s sister planet. Walk the surface of Mars in your living room and interact with full-scale, realistic NASA Landers and Rovers. Learn about the Red Planet, its history, and its geography in this interactive experience. Play time: 20 min.

8/30/2016

The Cats And VR App Of the Week is Damaged Core From High Voltage Software.

Damaged Core is a bold new first person shooter that puts you in control of a human-friendly AI, a premise heightened by the unique capabilities of virtual reality. Teleport into enemy robots and use their own weapons against them to reclaim the planet after a hostile machine uprising.

August 18th 2016

CatsAndVR has been talking about Wands for a while and now the best looking new game for Gear VR, Wands, launches today in the Oculus store:

Set in late 19th-century London, Wands presents an alternate history and drops gamers into a virtual reality steampunk world where they can join a secret society of spell wielders who seek to prove their power and unlock hidden magical talents. An online PvP (player vs. player) game for Samsung Gear VR, players train in Wands by learning ancient spells, dueling other wielders online, harnessing their mystical power to become the most powerful magician in the realm.

Get immersed in this endless VR smashing arcade racing, smashing and surfing game. In this colorful endless arcade space racer, the goal is to "Smash Till You Crash". Fly and drift through the obstacles while you smash through the glass and pickup shards to build your drone shield and thrust.Features include:- 14 Drones to unlock & Upgrade- VR/ Google Cardboard support- Four levels of difficulty- Supports offline mode. - Earn free currency by watching Ad's- Try drones before you buy- Simple Tilt or Touch to controls

The Cats And VR App Of The Day is VeeR Pong: Beer Pong in VR. Enjoy the weekend!

Who doesn't love a good game of beer pong? Only problem is that it can be tough to find a game . Enter VeeR Pong, a new virtual reality game that brings all the best parts of beer pong into your home without having to constantly restock ping pong balls and plastic cups.

Raw Data is a highly immersive, made-for-VR co-op combat game with a lively world influenced by classic sci-fi thrillers. The player becomes the adrenaline-charged hero of his own futuristic action blockbuster, complete with an arsenal of advanced weapons and futuristic technopowers driven by Active VR gameplay.

The initial Early Access version of Raw Data features multiple heroes and enemies, a variety of missions, networked co-op gameplay, locomotion, special ability unlocks, and much more. All players who buy the game in Early Access will also receive the final game on release, expected later this year.

Raw Data has received high praise from both VR insiders and mainstream gamers at Game Developers Conference, PAX East, and E3. TechCrunch hailed the two-player experience as “the most advanced first-person shooter in VR.” Tom’s Guide named it the best VR game of GDC 2016. And at E3, Unreal Engine and GamesBeat awarded Raw Data with their “Awesome (Hardware Mover)” and “Technical Achievement (VR Voodoo)” accolades.

“The VR community greatly influences our game direction, and we’re very excited to hear what they have to say now that our first public build of Raw Data is available for everyone to experience,” said James Iliff, co-founder and Chief Creative Officer of Survios

“Our goal is to deliver a complete VR gaming experience with intuitive gameplay, thrilling action, compelling environments, and hours of replayability. Player feedback is invaluable in making that happen,” added Chris Hewish, Survios’ Head of Studio. “We’re fully supporting Raw Data with continuous content updates.”

Raw Data is now available for HTC Vive on Steam Early Access for $39.99 (plus a 20% launch discount). For more details, please visit www.RawDataGame.com .

July 12,2016

The Cats And VR app of the day is Hyper Room.

In Hyper Room, you create “rooms” in VR that you can share with other people, who can then join your room. Once someone’s in your room you get shared voice chat and presence, and you can both draw in 3D together a la Tiltbrush, or use tools like a whiteboard. Everything’s in real time so you see an avatar synced with their movements, and the strokes get rendered as the other person is drawing them.

Your default/current microphone set to your Vive’s microphone.A good internet connection. This is mostly for the voice chat, if you can run Skype or Hangouts then you should be fine.Other people to try it out with!

Controls:Right trigger to draw.Swipe the right touchpad horizontally to resize the brush.Click into the right touchpad to switch between eraser and brush.Click into the left touchpad to activate teleport mode. A parabola will appear and teleport you to where it lands once you release.

Dark Days, Parallel Studio’s newest VR experience, immerses you in a creepy motel in the middle of Death Valley to solve puzzles while you fight for survival. Fans of escape-the-room puzzles and thrilling supernatural narrative have a new VR game to look forward to. Dark Days is as an excellent Gear VR title that mixes the weirdness of Twin Peaks with the unknown supernatural bumps in the night of The X-Files and the hide-and-seak game play of Amnesia. The game puts you in the role of heroine Jade Lacroix, a writer who checks into a very seedy motel filled with mystery.

June 18th 2016

The Cats And VR App Of The Day is Guided Meditation VR.

Meditation made simple & visual. http://guidedmeditationvr.com/ Available now for Gear VR. Coming soon for the HTC Vive and Oculus Rift. Bring peace, joy, and calm back into your daily life with the virtual relaxation app Guided Meditation VR. Use at home or work, while your mind vacations in exotic locations across the universe. – ENVIRONMENTS – Escape the everyday in one of over 4 lush locations, each with 4 unique meditation spots. – GUIDED MEDITATIONS – Enjoy 9 free guided sessions in Zen, Loving Compassion, or Relaxation. Learn ancient meditation practices in a cutting-edge way. – CUSTOMIZATION – Prefer meditating on your own? Like music? No music? Customize your meditations to be perfect, just for you. – BIOFEEDBACK – The world's first VR app to measure heart rate in virtual reality without add-ons. See the positive, calming effects of meditation in person! – FREE UPDATES – Enjoy FREE environments, meditations, and teachers in ongoing updates. Leave the worries of your life for a short virtual vacation, and return calmer and stronger. Find your happy place.

May 28th 2016

The Cats And VR App Of The Day for May 28th is Floor Plan.

Official Selection - IndieCade Showcase @ E3 2016 Floor Plan is a puzzle adventure game that takes place entirely inside an elevator. Go floor to floor, find items, and meet a bizarre cast of characters. Discover relationships between different things in the building and unlock its secrets...all from the comfort of your elevator.

The Cats And VR App of the Day for May 26th 2016 is Catlateral Damage VR

Catlateral Damage is a first-person destructive cat simulator where you play as a cat on a rampage, knocking as much stuff onto the ground as possible. See the world through the eyes of an ordinary house cat, now with virtual reality support for the HTC Vive! Use your motion controllers as paws to swat at all your owner’s beloved belongings within procedurally-generated houses. Race the clock in Objective Mode or just chill at your own pace in Litterbox Mode. After experiencing the life of a cat in VR you’ll finally understand why cats are so mischievous: because it’s fun! Check it out on Steam: http://store.steampowered.com/app/474720/

The Cats And VR App Of The Day for May 24th 2016 is Arizona Sunshine for HTC VIVE

Arizona Sunshine is a VR shooter built and optimized for room-scale VR from the ground up. Step into the midst of a zombie apocalypse as if you were really there, and defend yourself against enemies close enough to touch. A custom-built physical animation system makes striking your undead enemies more thrilling and satisfying than ever before.

Room-space VR. Step into the midst of a zombie attack as if you were really there and defend yourself against enemies close enough to touch. Arizona Sunshine is a shooter built and optimized for VR from the ground up. Motion-controlled weapon handling. With HTC Vive's motion controllers in room-scale VR, handling, firing and reloading your guns never felt so realistic. Anticipate attacks, manage your ammo and consumables, and aim down the sights to blast your enemies to undead pieces.

Experience your entire music collection in VR. Audioshield puts you at the point of impact for every hit in your music. Beats glide in slowly for mellow parts of songs, then ramp up for intense parts of songs with cross-body, double-shield, and high-altitude hits.

Audioshield uses an advanced version of Audiosurf 2's music analysis system to sync with any song from your collection - and also with online streaming from Soundcloud.

Every song has its own online leaderboard. Audioshield also supports local leaderboards to easily compete with friends during look-at-my-awesome-new-VR-system parties.

The Cats And VR App Of The Day is Disney Movies VR. Disney is a small indie film studio that has created some very under the radar releases but as of recent had some semi big hits. Disney is currently riding a wave of popularity due to helping bringing some obscure comic book and Sci-Fi properties into the mainstream a bit. Disney recently launched a VR app that they hope will help their films get some more exposure. Check it out on Steam: http://store.steampowered.com/app/469650/

Transport yourself into the wonderful world of Disney from your very own living room with Disney Movies VR. This app is a fully-immersive Disney experience where you can visit themed worlds, including Disney, Marvel, and Lucasfilm, and interact with some of your favorite characters in their natural environments.

May 16th 2016

The Cats And VR App Of The Day for May 16th is Kismet. Kismet was produced by world-renowned creative studio Psyop, famous for their contributions to the worlds of animation and advertising which have earned them awards including Annies, Emmys, Cubes, Lions, Pencils, Webbies, and more.

Kismet is a unique Virtual Reality daily fortune-telling experience for Oculus Rift and HTC Vive. Seated across a table from an enchanted automaton with the power to see the future in the Cards and the Stars, you'll be transported to a place where magic is real. Named after the mysterious fortune-teller at its core, Kismet is an experience inspired by the mystic arts of tarot and astrology, brought to life in a beautifully detailed, handmade, gothic style, unlike anything else available in VR.http://store.steampowered.com/app/463290http://KismetVR.com

May 10th 2016

The Cats And VR App of the Day is Ghibli VR Demos by Fire Panda. If you are a Hayao Miyazaki please check out this free app for VR. A lot of love was put into this so please support Fire Panda on future projects as well. https://www.wearvr.com/apps/ghibli-vr-demos

The Cats And VR App Of The Day will of course have to be Star Wars related since it is May the fourth. It's a great app for Star Wars fans and has some Google Cardboard and AR features that are excellent!

The Star Wars app is your official mobile connection to a galaxy far, far away.With a dynamic interface, the Star Wars app immerses you in breaking news, rich media, social updates, special events, and interactive features. Here’s where the fun begins:

● Get instant notifications on big announcements, including trailer releases and movie news● Theme your app with Light Side, Dark Side, or Droid interfaces, each containing different designs, sounds, and animations ● Immerse yourself in Jakku Spy, a first-of-its-kind serialized Google Cardboard Virtual Reality (VR) feature that ties directly to Star Wars: The Force Awakens..● Unlock 3D characters from Star Wars: The Force Awakens using a special Augmented Reality camera feature ● Take and share a Star Wars “selfie” in various iconic costumes and settings, including Jedi, Princess Leia (with hair buns), Han Solo’s carbon freeze, and more● Get Star Wars-themed weather and five-day forecasts, featuring original art and parallax effects of in-universe planets and locales ● Wield a lightsaber and hone your skills against a training remote, as seen in Star Wars: A New Hope● Share Emojis and animated GIFs with your friends and family

Cyberpong VR takes the core experience of classic paddle ball games and brings it to life in an immersive and futuristic game world fully controlled by the player,” said Jikhan Jung, CEO of colopl NI. “Our goal is to create engaging social VR experiences such as what Cyberpong VR provides through its intuitive head-to-head action and easily relatable game style.”

Cyberpong VR was developed and published by colopl NI’s San Mateo, CA studio, which has been staffing up with VR-focused development talent from Silicon Valley to forge new VR games. The title is available now for the HTC Vive on Steam for MSRP $14.99, with a special 10% discount during launch week for just $13.49.

Enter a realm of cyberspace where hitting digital orbs can gain you ultimate glory! In this retro styled game you are given two paddles to prove what you're made of. Harness your skills in single player mode and then face off against your friends in multiplayer matches!

April 30th 2016

The Cats And VR VR App of the Day is The Climb, out now for Oculus Rift.

Check out all three stunning environments in The Climb, out now for Oculus Rift. Scale new heights on VR as you race to the top of leaderboards, beat intense bouldering challenges, explore beautiful environments, and feel the vertigo and adrenaline of each and every ascent.

The Climb is available now at Oculus Home

April 28th 2016

The Cats And VR App Of The Day for April 28th 2016 is The Cat Detector. The Cat Detector uses a Kinect v1 sensor to take a baseline image, then scan for large, contiguous blobs. It plays a loud warning sound whenever it detects two or more blobs at a time, until one of the blobs disappears. Aim the Kinect at your HTC Vive VR playspace, get out of the picture, and hit "Baseline & Arm" to start it up. Make sure it has a clear view of any possible places a cat would enter the space, and immediately pause the game and look around if a warning sound plays, since cats tend to quickly slip into your shadow/out of sight.

Q: How does it work?A: You click "Baseline & Arm" to capture a frame of depth data, and then the app sounds an alarm if it detects two or more large contiguous blobs that are different from the baseline. The alarm stops when it gets back to one blob, and note that unless you're very careful with the way you position your Kinect, there will likely be large blind spots in your VR playspace, so pause the game ASAP and look around if the alarm goes off!

I have not tried it yet but it was developed by Ray Marcilla who is employed by Microsoft as a BIOS/driver developer on the first party devices team. By default of the site name I have to put this on.

The Cats And VR App Of The Day for April 26th 2016 and perhaps my current favorite App is The 2016 SXSW Accelerator Award winner for Virtual Reality: SPLASH.

Splash your reality - create and share videos in 360 with friends using only your phone!

* Tap around to capture and add videos to make a Splash* Dive into the best Splashes from around the world* Share Splashes with friends on Facebook and other social networks* Double-tap to show your love in 360°* Check out VR mode to experience Splashes in Google Cardboard or other headsets. VR just got social!

Simply put Splash is a super accessible way to enter into creating 360° video content. All you need is an iPhone. The app allows you to shoot and stitch 360° videos and pictures right in your phone. You can easily share on Facebook and to the Splash community through the app. One of the most AMAZING features of the app is the ability with just one tap to make your video Google Cardboard available and to be shared on the fly. This could be used for amazing promotional content.

You may have seen me post some Splash vids on my 360° Video page. Here we have a video that is an 80's Cat video wall with an homage to Prince hidden as well as my DJ set from the Camp Zoom Burning Man Fundraiser.

Download Splash and start making immersive content today. The Future Is Meow!

Click to play the video then use your mouse or trackpad to move the videos in a 360° space.

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April 21st, 2016

The CatsAndVR.com VR app of the day for April 21st, 2016 is Lucky's Tale from Playful. This is a fantastic platformer and though it is not the type of experience I expected from VR it works very well. It is good to have a pure platformer to break up the first person flood that is currently available on headsets. If anything Lucky's Tale made me hope the PSVR gets a Crash Bandicoot VR game. http://www.playfulcorp.com/

Lucky's Tale is a delightful platforming adventure game designed exclusively for the Oculus Rift. Join Lucky as he runs, jumps, climbs and spins his way through bright, colorful worlds filled with thrilling challenges, wacky creatures, and all the shiny things a little fox could ever want!

Built from the ground up for virtual reality, the game invites you to step inside a vibrant, living world like never before. Whether you’re racing with Lucky through lush trees, dodging swamp pits, battling menacing bosses, or mastering mini-games, you’ll feel like you’re really there thanks to the magic of VR.

Destroy the colossal mothership looming over the planet and save your homeworld! With a fleet of high-tech starfighters at your disposal, take on a series of suicidal missions to destroy the alien invader from the inside. Take down reactors, collect sensitive data, and avoid lethal defenses as you maneuver through the vents of the enemy vessel at near light-speed velocity – you are the last hope of your people!

Key Features:

Light-Speed Gameplay – Enjoy a fast-paced arcade experience that’s easy to pick up but challenging to master. Get your adrenaline pumping as you maneuver between elaborate obstacles and death traps inside a giant spaceship – beautifully rendered with Unreal Engine 4.

Virtual Desktop is an application developed for the Oculus Rift and HTC Vive that lets you use your computer in VR. You can browse the web, watch movies, Netflix or even play games on a giant virtual screen.

Other features include:

Hardware accelerated 360 video playback

Ability to play/stream YouTube 360 videos

Browse and view 360 photos

MilkDrop support for music visualization

3D Side-By-Side video support

Game launcher with voice commands

Multi-monitor

Environment Editor to create custom environments

Steam Workshop integration for environments

“These are the kinds of programs that change the way people look at technology. In this case, it’s a program that, for some people, might actually make virtual reality a enjoyable, even practical, replacement for their monitor.” Kotaku

“It's an incredibly polished app that take minimal resources to provide a number of functions that feel like they should be a standardised part of the VR experience coming to consumer homes.” Destructoid

“This is the first program you should buy for your Oculus Rift” Polygon

Fly on a magic carpet through the mystical land of Bazaar, collecting exotic trinkets for your journey! Beware dart traps, sea cobras, and hungry crocs that lurk around corners. Vandal monkeys have stolen relics from the guardian of the labyrinth - will you recover them in time or be trapped forever?

Steer with your eyes and consult the constellations to navigate this multi-award winning game made by developers that created indie hits Plants vs. Zombies and Cannon Brawl.

Now available on Steam for the Oculus Rift and HTC Vive VR headsets. Also available on Gear VR

Features:25+ collectible items, with unique abilities10+ traps and enemiesEver-changing labyrinthsExtensively designed for player comfort

Looks like the game has come a long way since it was in the VR Jam. The Gear VR version got John Carmack's as well as CatsAndVR.com's seal of approval.

April 15th, 2016

The CatsAndVR.com VR App Of the Day for April 15th, 2016 is Tomb of the Golems.

GREE, a global mobile social company, announced the company has created the GVR Fund: an investment fund that works with strategic investors to give early-stage virtual reality, augmented reality and mixed reality companies the opportunity to accelerate growth. The fund will be managed by San Francisco-based GREE VR Capital, LLC and will invest in gaming and non-gaming software and content companies. To date, the fund has invested in two companies: VRChat Inc., a platform that allows users to create, publish, and explore VR worlds with users around the world, and SPACES, Inc.

The first game from the GREE VR Studio, Tomb of the Golems, has launched in the Gear VR Oculus Store Tomb of the Golems is an exciting shooter VR game that takes players on an epic journey through Egyptian ruins.

Fulldive is virtual reality (VR) navigation platform. Fulldive allows you to browse and view a new generation of media, such as watching 3D and 360 photos and videos, and also browse the Internet at a completely new angle like never before.

Fulldive VR app works with any Virtual Reality viewer, such as Google Cardboard VR headset.

The VR App of the day for April 7th 2016 is Lost Cities VR, a great title from Canadian developers The Campfire Union and is based on a board game by designer Reiner Knizia. It launches today on Gear VR.

NOW AVAILABLE FOR GEAR VR Based on the award-winning tabletop card game Lost Cities by world-renowned board game designer Reiner Knizia, Lost Cities VR is a two-player strategy game that transports you to unexplored regions and mythical realms. Can you outwit your opponent and make the most profit as you compete to be the first to discover the ancient lost cities?

The VR App of the day for April 7th 2016 is the VR Jurassic Island Beta Demo for the Microsoft Hololens Development unit.

The HoloLens Development unit has started shipping to pre-order customers throughout the US and Virtual World Arcade founder Jeremy Lam a Program Manager on the HoloLens team at Microsoft has already developed a game. VR Jurassic Island Beta is now available on the Windows Store. VR JURASSIC ISLAND FOR HOLOLENS - BETA is designed to play at a Virtual World Arcade where players can run around a large space while wearing the Microsoft HoloLens.

Download here.

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April 5th 2016

The VR App of the day for April 5th 2016 is Squarepusher’s ‘Stor Eiglass – a VR experience from Marshmallow Laser Feast, Rob Pybus & Blue Zoo.

To mark the release of ‘Stor Eiglass’, a track from Squarepusher’s ‘Damogen Furies’ album, bleeding-edge artists Marshmallow Laser Feast (MLF), Blue Zoo and Rob Pybus came together to create not just a standard music video, but a virtual reality (VR) promo that can be experienced via a VR headsets, mobiles, tablets and Youtube’s new 360º platform. For the fully immersive complete virtual reality experience: Android / Google Cardboard Version: http://smarturl.it/stor-eiglass-playIOS: http://smarturl.it/stor-eiglass-ios

The VR app of the day for April 2nd 2016 is Sisters. It's Caturday so why not sit on the couch and relax...then behold the terror that awaits you!

Sisters is an episodic haunted house meets room escape VR experience. Go room by room to discover clues to the mysterious and deadly sisters' past. Rescue your own sister before it's too late! Try it out on Cardboard and then check it out when it comes to the HTC Vive in 2016. Sisters is one of Sundance 2016's New Frontier Selections!

Be careful where you look because someone, or something, doesn't want you here. A teaser for the original Sisters mobile experience. Get it for free on iPhone and Android devices! Compatible with most Virtual Reality viewers. http://otherworldinteractive.com/project-view/sisters/ Cats And VR.

April 1st 2016

The VR App Of the day for 4/1/2016 is none other than SnoopaVision. Google has basically knocked it out of the park today. The Google Cardboard Plastic reveal followed by the SnoopaVision announcement has shown that upstart startup Google may be a big time player in VR in the future.

When CatsAndVR.com asked Mr. Broadus why he chose to partner with Google he had the following to say.

" Look my shizzle ever since I invested well in Medical Marijuana startup Eaze I have been looking to pick winners. After Samsung and Oculus picked Lil Wayne over me and then Sony and HTC aint even come to me I was like if Samsung, Oculus, Sony, and HTC aint got love for Snoop Dogg and Beats by Dre we aint got love for them" The rest was hizztory. By the way you should use Eaze and use my promo code as well" https://www.eazeup.com/invite/icbfqqw

Well thats Snoop for ya, always ahead of the curve. Cats And VR.

Welcome to SnoopaVision, a fully immersive experience that lets you watch any video on YouTube in 360 degrees, with Snoop Dogg. The best of SnoopaVision:

March 31st 2016

The VR App of the day for 3/31/16 is a really awesome Google Cardboard app that will be a hit with music fans as well as Beatle aficionados. Inside Abbey Road makes it possible for anyone around the world to step inside the iconic Abbey Road Studios the spiritual home of British Music and follow in the footsteps of musical legends. Explore the rooms, discover stories, historic images and videos, and play with innovative Abbey Road equipment.

Click to download the App of the day.

Feel like you've stepped inside one of the world's most iconic musical landmarks, Abbey Road Studios. Place your phone into a Google Cardboard viewer (http://g.co/cardboard) and discover the studios where the Beatles, Oasis, Coldplay, Muse and Adele have all recorded tracks.

The experience begins with a nine-part guided tour narrated by Giles Martin who shares some of the secrets and history of the studios from 1930s to current day. After the tour, quite literally move around the studios at your own leisure to see hidden treasures like Studio 3’s Mirrored Drum Room where musicians such as Tony Bennett and Amy Winehouse have recorded. Uncover one of Abbey Road's Mastering Suites, where a record gets its finishing touches before a release. In Studio 1, experience what it actually feels like to be in a recording session with the London Symphony Orchestra with surround sound.